Monday, August 17, 2009

Posting

Sure I post mostly anonymously here, I have to work for a living, and there's no point in annoying people at work with my individual foibles. I annoy them plenty already with work-related ones. Still, get a load of the commenting rules over at NPR:

Sign up for the NPR Community

Welcome aboard, matey!

– Any comments you post to the site will include your full name, so please be aware of this before contributing to the site.

There are inquiring minds that will want to know. They pay us here. We also belong to their union.

– A simple user profile will be created showing your full name and nickname.

A front and side photo will be added later.

– Visitors to NPR.org can view this profile, but it will not show up in external search engines.

A certain amount of denyability is required.

– The profile will display your comment history. Comments cannot be changed or deleted after you post them.

Everything will appear on your PERMANENT record, and can and will be used against you. What do you think you are, a Senator?

Unlike here. I don't like spam in the comments, but you may, at your own discretion, "spit on the floor and call the cat a bastard".

3 comments:

Brad K. said...

Why is someone going to call your cat a name? That just doesn't make sense.

I admire a cat that continues to thrive, with a squirrel trap in the back yard. The intent might not have been to clean up the gene pool of incompetent cats, but I do honor the cats that don't fall afoul of the simple dangers in life.

And spitting on the floor is a pagan ritual of curse and demons. And nasty. Some spitters chew, and that gets slippery (leads to an unsafe and hostile work place; ask OSHA).

But thanks for pointing out the exposure that NPR relies on to self-police their troll village. On DraftResource.com some years ago, using a different script, I found posting the IP address and time stamp accomplished the same thing. Using a battery of complaint process and diligence, it is possible to track down a commenter with a trusted IP address and time stamp - but it is beyond what most scammers and scavengers will invest in.

Have you ever tried to make paint balls for that watermelon chucking air gun? Just wondered.

Billll said...

I believe that a gallon of exterior latex would fit the barrel pretty good, or at least require a small ethafoam seal.

Starts the wheels turning, doesn't it?

Darryl said...

Well, NPR is, of course, a socialist tool.

Anonymous posts are quite useful in a forum where anyone can walk in the door and print out a report of loathsome poster comments.

On the other hand, there is a certain utility in accountability. I would prefer to know, for instance, when Ward Churchill is posting.